Winnipeg grew around the location where the Assiniboine and Red rivers join. We call it the Forks, but really, it's not so much a fork as a confluence. An awful lot of trade went up and down the rivers in the early days of the settlements.

I was standing on the closest thing we have to a mountain. I'm pretty sure it's the highest point in the city, which most of us call Garbage Hill. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it gets it's name from the fact that it used to be a landfill site which has been covered over in dirt.